
Nginx (<a href="/Pronunciation" title="Pronunciation">pronounced engine-x</a>) is a free, open-source, high-performance HTTP server and reverse proxy, as well as an IMAP/POP3 proxy server.  <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://sysoev.ru/en/">Igor Sysoev</a> started development of Nginx in 2002, with the first public release in 2004. Nginx now hosts nearly <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2012/01/03/january-2012-web-server-survey.html">12.18% (22.2M)</a> of active sites across all domains.
Nginx is known for its high performance, stability, rich feature set, simple configuration, and low resource consumption.
